Disappointed that your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S has just one SIM card slot? If you’re one the few that answered ‘yes’ to that question, then check out the Vooma Peel PG920 — a case for your new iPhone that not only features a backup battery, but also a second SIM card slot.

The biggest downside to the Vooma Peel PG920, other than its looks, is that is requires a jailbroken device to work. Those of you who are interested in jailbreaking will know that the iPhone 4S cannot currently be hacked, which makes the case compatible with the iPhone 4 only for the time being.

The device combines with the Vooma app — not available in the App Store — to add a secondary SIM card to your iPhone 4S, allowing you to quickly and easily switch between two SIMs when necessary. The application basically serves as an interface for the components inside the Vooma case.

TechCrunch, which has already used the Vooma in its pre-release stage, believes the case has potential:

Once it’s set up the Peel PG92 works seamlessly and even uses a similar interface to Apple’s own dialer – although it’s clear that the programmers had to cut a few corners to get the look and feel correct. For example, the dialing screen is actually a bitmapped copy of the original dialer and the letters and numbers are slightly warped. However, all of the major functionality is recreated in the Vooma app.

… this is clearly a very cool and clever hack and it works without problems on any jailbroken iPhone

There’s currently no word on the Vooma’s pricing or release date, but if you’re interested you can register for updates on the company’s website.

This would be (technically) illegal also, but it remains to be seen whether it’s a bad enough violation for Apple to take them to court.

Jailbreaking for illegal purposes is still illegal. A company that makes jailbreaking a central part of their product plan is a bit stupid IMO.

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tried to register and guess whatPage not foundwoo ma

John Mozelewski

how is this illegal you can legally use your iphone on t-mobile what is the difference

Christopher Santos

In response to a request by the Electronic FrontierFoundation, the U.S. Copyright Office explicitly recognized an exemption to theDMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phoneswith applications that are not available from Apple’s store, and to unlocktheir iPhones for use with unapproved carriers. Apple had previously filedcomments opposing this exemption and indicated that they did considerjailbreaking to be a violation of copyright (and by implication prosecutableunder the DMCA). In their ruling, the Library of Congress affirmed on July 26,2010 that jailbreaking is exempt from DMCA rules with respect to circumventingdigital locks. This exemption must be reviewed and renewed every three years orelse it will expire.

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Mike Rathjen

Oh really. What law forbids switching SIMs?

You don’t need this fancy case to switch SIMs. All this case does it make it more convenient.

Brandon Dillon

Peabody is a frequent anti-American troll. Don’t feed it.

Mike Kohler

Depending on price and quality, this may not be any different from what is sold relatively cheap at dealextreme in various designs.

John Mozelewski

i was just wondering lol i didnt think it was illegal but wasnt 100% sure

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